Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 8 OCTOBER 1999

Session QF1. Diagnostics II.

Friday morning, 08:00, Stratford Room, Sheraton Waterside Hotel

08:00 QF1.01 Coherent Rayleigh scattering in weakly ionized gases with nearly-degenerate four-wave mixing
Peter Barker, Richard Miles (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University), Jay Grinstead (Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology)
08:15 QF1.02 "IRMA" a Tunable Infrared Multi-Component Acquisition System for Plasma Diagnostics
J. Röpcke, L. Mechold (INP-Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald), J. Anders, F.G. Wienhold (IPM-Freiburg, 79110 Freiburg, Germany), D. Nelson, M. Zahniser (Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica MA\,01821-3976, USA)
08:30 QF1.03 Measurements of ne and Te in CF4 plasmas by laser Thomson scattering
M. D. Bowden, R. Tabata, K. Uchino, K. Muraoka (Kyushu University)
08:45 QF1.04 Spatially Resolved Measurements of O_2 Vibrational Distribution and Rotational Temperature in Laser-Sustained Nonequilibrium Plasmas
R. Leiweke, M. Fernee, I. Adamovich, W. Lempert (The Ohio State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbus, Ohio 43210)
09:00 QF1.05 LIF of OH radicals in a dielectric-barrier discharge
Ravi Sankaranarayanan, Bijan Pashaie, Shirshak Dhali (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901)
09:15 QF1.06 Self Absorption Effects on the Detection of Hg and Cd in an Atmospheric Microwave Sustained Plasma
Kamal Hadidi, Paul Woskov, Guadalupe Flores, Karen Green, Paul Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
09:30 QF1.07 Measurements of Ion Energy and Ion Flux Distributions in Inductively Coupled Plasmas in CF4/O2/Ar Mixtures
M. V. V. S. Rao, J. S. Kim, M. A. Cappelli, S. P. Sharma (NASA-Ames Research Center)
09:45 QF1.08 Electrical Characterization of an Ionized Physical Vapor Deposition Reactor
S. Rauf, P. L. G. Ventzek, V. Arunachalam, D. G. Coronell (Motorola Inc.)

Session QF2. DC Glows.

Friday morning, 08:00, York Room, Sheraton Waterside Hotel

08:00 QF2.01 Coexistence of Contracted and Diffuse Plasmas in Steady-State Glow Discharges
Yury Z. Ionikh, Naira V. Chernysheva, Sergey O. Macheret, Richard B. Miles (Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Eng., Princeton University)
08:15 QF2.02 Direct Proof of the Thermal Nature of the Effect of a Discharge Plasma on Shock Wave Propagation
Yury Ionikh, Alexander Meshchanov, Azer Yalin, Richard Miles (Princeton University)
08:30 QF2.03 Atmospheric Pressure Glow Discharges in Air
Robert H. Stark, Karl H. Schoenbach (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529)
08:45 QF2.04 Acoustic Shock Wave Propagation in a Glow Discharge(Supported by Accurate Automation Corporation.)
S. Popovi\'c, L. Vu\vskovi\'c (Old Dominion U., Norfolk, VA)
09:00 QF2.05 A New Plasma Column Model Including Wall Interactions
Dirk Uhrlandt, Martin Schmidt, Rolf Winkler (Institut für Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik Greifswald, Germany)
09:15 QF2.06 Self-Consistent Monte Carlo Simulations of Positive Discharges
Uwe Kortshagen (Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, MN 55455), James E. Lawler (Dept. of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706)
09:30 QF2.07 Nonequilibrium Positive Column III.
J. H. Ingold (One Bratenahl Place #610, Bratenahl, OH 44108)
09:45 QF2.08 Fluid Approach for Modelling a DC Discharge at Low-Pressures
G. Gousset (LPGP,Univ.Paris-Sud (France)), L.L. Alves (CFP, IST (Portugal)), O. Leroy (LPGP,Univ.Paris-Sud (France))